Winners of 2012-2013 B . Iden Payne Awards for Theatre Arts, Austin

Winners announced during the ceremony at the State Theatre, Austin, on November 5, 2013:

B. Iden Payne Awards

2012 – 2013 Season

THEATER FOR YOUTH

Outstanding Production

Playground Superhero Pollyanna Theatre Company

Outstanding Direction

Judy Matetzschk-Campbell Playground Superhero


Outstanding Performer
Toby Minor (Kobyn) Playground Superhero

MUSIC THEATER
Outstanding Production

Avenue Q Austin Theatre Project

Outstanding Direction

Rudy Ramirez (write-in)

Outstanding Lead Actor

Andrew Foote (Tateh) Ragtime: The Musical


Outstanding Lead Actress

Michelle Haché (Princess Ida) Princess Ida

Outstanding Featured Actor

Nathan Jerkins (Lexy Mill) A Minister’s Wife


Outstanding Featured Actress

Libby Dees-Detling (Mae) Reefer Madness: The Musical

COMEDY
Outstanding Production

Qualities of Starlight VORTEX Repertory Company


Outstanding Direction

Rudy Ramirez Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Lead Actor

Toby Minor (Theodore Turner) Qualities of Starlight

Outstanding Lead Actress

Liz Fisher (Kelly) The Pain and the Itch


Outstanding Featured Actor


J. Ben Wolfe (Mr. Hadid) The Pain and the Itch

Outstanding Featured Actress

Chris Humphrey (Mrs. Steve Powers, announcer) Brides of the Moon

DRAMA

Outstanding Production

Slowgirl,  Hyde Park Theatre


Outstanding Direction

Rachel Wiese The Man Who Planted Trees

Outstanding Lead Actor

Jason Newman (Doug) Gruesome Playground Injuries [Capital T]

Outstanding Lead Actress

Molly Karrasch (Becky) Slowgirl


Outstanding Featured Actor

Ryan Hamilton (Jesse Bandel, Teddy Ray Harrington) Just Outside Redemption


Outstanding Featured Actress

Beth Broderick (Harlene Corf) Just Outside Redemption

GENERAL CATEGORIES

Outstanding Set Design

Ann Marie Gordon      Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Lighting Design

Jason Amato     Water


Outstanding Sound Design

Robert Fisher    Slowgirl

Outstanding Costume Design

Carl Booker      Little Shop of Horrors


Outstanding Music Direction


John Vander Gheynst    Little Shop of Horrors

Outstanding Dance Choreography

Toni Bravo    Earth


Outstanding Fight Choreography

Toby Minor    Coriolanus


Outstanding Original Script

Gabriel Jason Dean     Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Original Score
Chelsea Manasseri, Rudy Ramirez, Melissa Vogt-Patterson, Michelle Alexander,

Hayley Armstrong, Jennifer Coy and Kyle Zamcheck   in  Sing Muse


Outstanding Media Design

Lowell Bartholomee Vodka, Fucking and Television


Outstanding Cast Performance

Sing Muse VORTEX Repertory Company


Outstanding Ensemble Performance

Jennifer Underwood and Dennis Bailey (parents) Qualities of Starlight


Outstanding Young Performer

a tie:

John Austin (Zeus as youth, Hades, Ganymede) Zeus in Therapy

Vincent Hooper (Youth) Passing Strange


Outstanding Puppetry

The Cruel Circus Trouble Puppet Theater Company


Special Certificates

Community outreach and accessibility in The Edge of Peace UT Department of Theatre and Dance

Being the Piano Man in 33 Variations Anton Nel

Props in Qualities of Starlight Helen Parish

Community involvement for Crab the Dog cross-promotion

in Two Gentlemen of Verona Something for Nothing Theater

Rudy Kloptic Award for Outstanding Work in Improvisational Theater

(nominated by the artistic directors of Austin’s improvisational theaters)

The Suitcase (The Institution Theater)

B. Iden Payne Awards -- Write-In Ballot for Outstanding Musical Theatre Director, November 5, 2013

October 23, 2013

Good morning Austin theatre friends,
It has been quite a week, hasn’t it?
For our part, we have been extremely busy planning the November 5th awards ceremony. We’re very excited to be returning to Congress Avenue and Stateside for this year’s event, and we hope to see you there where we will be giving out one more award than originally planned.
Though we stand by our process and practices, we want the community to know that we have heard the discontent, both direct and indirect, over the omission of the Director of Music Theatre nomination. Our primary directive is to recognize excellence, but that directive is in service to this community. If in our service, we fall short, we want to remedy that shortcoming.
You have asked for this very directly, so we want this award to come from you directly. The 2012-2013 ballot will contain a write-in voting opportunity for this category and the award will go to the candidate with the most votes. We look forward to presenting this award along with the many others.
Sincerely,
Kelsey Kling
Executive Director
B. Iden Payne Council

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Clarification of Position on 2013 Award Nominations – re: Direction of Music Theatre, B. Iden Payne Awards Committee

Published at the B. Iden Payne awards website and posted to AustinLiveTheatre on October 17:

As many of you are aware, or can imagine, we’ve received some negative feedback about the lack of recognition in the Direction of a Musical category for this year’s awards. A good deal of the feedback centers around the contention that this situation is virtually impossible, and must be either an oversight, or a breakdown in process on the council’s part. We, as a council, wish to assure you that we take our involvement in the community very seriously, and that we were very thorough in evaluating this season’s productions.

Our charter as a council is to support, promote and recognize excellence in Austin’s theatre community. In holding to that most basic of tenets, after a significant amount of time and effort to review and discuss the entire season, we came to the difficult conclusion that this particular category did not contain a comprehensive representation of the excellence that we are dedicated to, and are expected to recognize. While we certainly felt that there were many good examples of direction of a musical, we felt it was our duty to adhere to the level of excellence mandated by our guidelines, as represented by the balance of categories/nominees.

Of the 169 productions reviewed this season, 21 were under the banner of Music Theatre. Each production was attended on average by 5 to 6 committee members, and 13 of those productions are nominated on the 2012-2013 ballot. We feel that even with the exclusion of this category, the genre and its many creators are well represented in this year’s nominations.

To expand further, in our final meeting of the year (which lasted 14 hours), we dedicated a full hour to the discussion of this very topic. We reviewed the entire season, checked and double-checked the metrics we use to evaluate elements of a production, and we were still unable to fill this particular category. This was an agonizing decision for all involved, as we all are passionate, intelligent, dedicated theatre-makers who devote 100’s, if not 1000’s, of hours of our time viewing and reviewing the best Austin has to offer. Nobody wants to recognize excellence in theatre more than we do.

To further ensure the council’s objectivity, we have implemented a system this year that refines even more our evaluation of the elements of a production on a more granular level, utilizing our updated Artistic Guidelines, which are available for viewing on our website. This new system, if you’re wondering, would not have changed the outcome of this year’s nominations. It simply gives us more metrics as we enter our year-end meeting, putting us further down the road as we discuss and compile the final list of nominations.

Thank you again for your support of the B. Iden Payne Awards Council, and the Austin theatre community. If you still have questions, as we expect you might, please do not hesitate to contact us directly, and we will be happy to speak with you, and help clarify anything that might still be unclear. Our desire is to be as thorough and transparent as possible in serving you, the Austin theatre community.

Sincerely,

Kelsey Kling

Executive Director, B. Iden Payne Awards Council

B. Iden Payne Honors Austin Theatre Artists, 2012-2013

Here's the full list of performers and performances in 2012-2013 those honored by the B. Iden Payne Award Committee. If you'd like to vote, you can go to the website to pay your $35 membership, which also entitles you to attend the ceremony on November 5 at the State Theatre downtown.

Nominations for Awards

2012 – 2013 Season

THEATER FOR YOUTH
Outstanding Production

The Bremen Town Musicians Summer Stock Austin

The Edge of Peace UT Department of Theatre and Dance

The Little Mermaid ZACH Theatre for Youth

Mariachi Girl ZACH Theatre for Youth, Teatro Vivo and UT Department of Theatre and Dance

Playground Superhero Pollyanna Theatre Company

Outstanding Direction

Linda Hartzell he Edge of Peace

Judy Matetzschk-Campbell Playground Superhero

Nat Miller The Little Mermaid

Brant Pope Mariachi Girl

Allen Robertson The Bremen Town Musicians
Outstanding Performer
Franchelle Stewart Dorn (Nell Hicks) The Edge of Peace

Toby Minor (Kobyn) Playground Superhero
Megan Richards (mermaid, storyteller) The Little Mermaid

Aisha San Roman (Cita) Mariachi Girl

Gricelda Silva (BeeBee) he Family of Ree
MUSIC THEATER
Outstanding Production

Avenue Q Austin Theatre Project

One Night With Janis Joplin  - ZACH Theatre, Daniel Chilewich and Todd Gershwin of One Night Productions,
the Estate of Janis Joplin and Jeffrey Jampol of JAM, Inc.

Passing Strange Half and Half Productions

Ragtime: The Musical ACH Theatre

The Secret Garden SEU Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Outstanding Direction

There are no nominees in this category this year.
Outstanding Lead Actor

Andrew Foote (Tateh) Ragtime: The Musical

Greg Holt (Archibald Craven) The Secret Garden

Matthew Redden (Bob Wallace) White Christmas: The Musical

Kyle Scatliffe (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.) Ragtime: The Musical
Outstanding Lead Actress

Jill Blackwood (Mother) Ragtime: The Musical

Kacee Clanton (Janis Joplin) One Night With Janis Joplin

Kia Dawn Fulton (Sarah) Ragtime: The Musical

Michelle Haché (Princess Ida) Princess Ida
Outstanding Featured Actor

Joey Banks (Danny Hooper) Baby: The Musical

Nathan Brockett (Jack) Reefer Madness: The Musical

Brian Coughlin (Ezekiel Foster, Santa Claus) White Christmas: The Musical

Nathan Jerkins (Lexy Mill) A Minister’s Wife

Jose Villarreal (Lecturer, Mr. Poppy, ensemble) Reefer Madness: The Musical
Outstanding Featured Actress

Jacqui Cross (Mother) Passing Strange

Libby Dees-Detling (Mae) Reefer Madness: The Musical

Amy Downing (Prossy Garnett) A Minister’s Wife

Tiffany Mann (the Blues Singer) One Night With Janis Joplin

Barbara A. Schoenhofer (Martha Watson) White Christmas: The Musical
COMEDY
Outstanding Production

The Importance of Being Earnest SEU Mary Moody Northen Theatre

The Lieutenant of Inishmore Capital T Theatre

The Motherfucker With the Hat Capital T Theatre

Qualities of Starlight VORTEX Repertory Company

Vodka, Fucking and Television Breaking String Theater
Outstanding Direction

Carrie Klypchak The Motherfucker With the Hat

Mark Pickell The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Rudy Ramirez Qualities of Starlight

Richard Robichaux The Importance of Being Earnest

Ben Schave The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Outstanding Lead Actor

Scot Friedman (George Hay) Moon Over Buffalo

Joseph Garlock (Cord McCade) Invisible Inc.

Joe Hartman (Virgin Sacrifice, Madeleine Astarté, Madeleine Andrews) Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

Jason Liebrecht (Padraic) The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Toby Minor (Theodore Turner) Qualities of Starlight
Outstanding Lead Actress

Liz Beckham (Miss Elizabeth Bennet) Pride and Prejudice

Liz Fisher (Kelly) e Pain and the Itch

Nikki Zook (Beatrice) Much Ado About Nothing
Outstanding Featured Actor

Michael Jastroch (ensemble) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Derek Jones (East, Jimmy, Lendall, Chad, Daniel) Almost, Maine

Laurence Pears (Question Mark) Invisible Inc.

David Stahl (Dr. Gerald Lyman) Bus Stop

J. Ben Wolfe (Mr. Hadid) The Pain and the Itch
Outstanding Featured Actress

Katie Bender (Dinah) The Cataract

Barbara Chisholm (Lady Bracknell) The Importance of Being Earnest

Sophia Franzella (Cecily Cardew) The Importance of Being Earnest

Chris Humphrey (Mrs. Steve Powers, announcer) Brides of the Moon

Leng Wong (Yoshiko) This Feather House
DRAMA

Outstanding Production

Agnes and Alfred Physical Plant Theater

The Cruel Circus Trouble Puppet Theater Company

The Man Who Planted Trees Exchange Artists

Slowgirl Hyde Park Theatre

The Sunset Limited Trinity Street Players
Outstanding Direction

Connor Hopkins The Cruel Circus

Jenny Larson Dream Cabinet

Steve Moore and Zeb L. West Adam Sultan

Carlos Treviño Agnes and Alfred

Rachel Wiese The Man Who Planted Trees
Outstanding Lead Actor

Trevor Bissell (Black) The Sunset Limited

Joey Hood (machine gunner, grandson) “I Am the Machine Gunner”, Strike

Jeff Mills (Andre) Three

Jason Newman (Doug) Gruesome Playground Injuries [Capital T]

Rommel Sulit (Jean) The Man Who Planted Trees
Outstanding Lead Actress

Molly Karrasch (Becky) Slowgirl

Hannah Kenah (Agnes) Agnes and Alfred
Rachel McGinnis Meissner (Blanche) A Streetcar Named Desire

Caroline Reck (Lady Macbeth, witch, murderer) Toil and Trouble

Rebecca Ann Robinson (Margaret) Good People

Outstanding Featured Actor

Travis Bedard (Gaunt, Carlisle) Richard II

Aaron Black (Michel Katurian) The Pillowman

Ryan Hamilton (Jesse Bandel, Teddy Ray Harrington) Just Outside Redemption

Gene Menger (Elzeard Bouffier) The Man Who Planted Trees

Charles P. Stites (Meninius) Coriolanus
Outstanding Featured Actress

Kim Adams (Emma) Circus Girl

Pilar Andujar (Helena) Boom for Real

Beth Broderick (Harlene Corf) Just Outside Redemption

Babs George (Mrs. Fergus) Mad Beat Hip and Gone

Amanda Morish (Mayme) Intimate Apparel
GENERAL CATEGORIES

Outstanding Set Design

Ia Ensterä Slowgirl

Ia Ensterä Strike

Ann Marie Gordon Qualities of Starlight

Ann Marie Gordon WATER

Derek Kolluri and Jenny Lavery Austin Is a Place (You Are Here)
Outstanding Lighting Design

Jason Amato WATER

Rachel Atkinson The Edge of Peace

Kathryn Eader The Secret Garden

Erin Fleming The Attic Space

Michelle Habeck 33 Variations
Outstanding Sound Design

Blake Addyson Strike

Robert Fisher Slowgirl

Jeff Mills ream Cabinet

Buzz Moran spacestation1985

Buzz Moran/K. Eliot Haynes Toil and Trouble
Outstanding Costume Design

Carl Booker Little Shop of Horrors

Monica Gibson and Lucie Cunningham The Cruel Circus

Deborah Roberts White Christmas: The Musical

Jamie Urban and Monica Gibson Circus Girl

Chin-Hua Yeh Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Music Direction

David Blackburn    Edges

Jeffrey Jones-Ragona    Princess Ida

Michael McKelvey and Steve Suagey     A Minister’s Wife

Allen Robertson     Ragtime: The Musical

Allen Robertson    White Christmas: The Musical

John Vander Gheynst    Little Shop of Horrors
Outstanding Dance Choreography

Toni Bravo EARTH

Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique Under Construction

Vincent Sandoval Swing!
Outstanding Fight Choreography

Travis Dean   The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Joseph Garlock    Julius Caesar

Toby Minor    Coriolanus

Andrew Rodgers     Doctor Faustus
Outstanding Original Script

Dennis Bailey     Just Outside Redemption

Gabriel Jason Dean    Qualities of Starlight

Nat Miller    The Little Mermaid

Steve Moore    Agnes and Alfred

Andrew Perry    Playground Superhero

Suzan Zeder    The Edge of Peace
Outstanding Original Score
Chelsea Manasseri, Rudy Ramirez, Melissa Vogt-Patterson, Michelle Alexander,

Hayley Armstrong, Jennifer Coy and Kyle Zamcheck           Sing Muse

Héctor Martínez Morales     Mariachi Girl

Graham Reynolds    Invisible Inc.

Chad Salvata, Chris Humphrey, Anderson Dear, Melissa Vogt-Patterson,

Betsy McCann, Emerald Mystiek and Mindy Rast    EARTH

Justin Sherburn    The Cruel Circus
Outstanding Media Design

Lowell Bartholomee Vodka, Fucking and Television

K. Eliot Haynes/Chris Owen Toil and Trouble

Kate Leahy The Little Mermaid

Katie Rose Pipkin The Man Who Planted Trees

Lee Webster Strike
Outstanding Cast Performance

Avenue Q Austin Theatre Project

The Cruel Circus Trouble Puppet Theater Company

The Motherfucker With the Hat Capital T Theatre

Sing Muse VORTEX Repertory Company

Twelve Angry Men City Theatre Company
Outstanding Ensemble Performance

Robert Schleifer and Dan Lendzian (Tuck and Voice) The Edge of Peace

Scot Friedman and Evan Shaw (Adam and Luke) Next Fall

Allen Robertson, Hunter St. Marie, Paul Koudouris, Will Krause, Harrell Williams,

Tony Bray, Rick White and Shane Walden (the band) One Night With Janis Joplin

Jennifer Underwood and Dennis Bailey (parents) Qualities of Starlight

Jason Newman and Bradley Carlin (astronauts) spacestation1985
Outstanding Young Performer

John Austin (Zeus as youth, Hades, Ganymede) Zeus in Therapy

Paige Bradbury (Mary Lennox) The Secret Garden

Vincent Hooper (Youth) Passing Strange

Gray Randolph (Pippin) Pippin

Donnie Thigpen (ensemble) Swing!
Outstanding Puppetry

Adam Sultan Physical Plant Theater

The Cruel Circus Trouble Puppet Theater Company

The Family of Ree Pollyanna Theatre Company

spacestation1985 Natalie George

Toil and Trouble Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Special Certificates

Community outreach and accessibility in The Edge of Peace UT Department of Theatre and Dance

Being the Piano Man in 33 Variations Anton Nel

Props in Qualities of Starlight Helen Parish

Community involvement for Crab the Dog cross-promotion

in Two Gentlemen of Verona Something for Nothing Theater
Rudy Kloptic Award for Outstanding Work in Improvisational Theater

(nominated by the artistic directors of Austin’s improvisational theaters)

Bad Boys (ColdTowne Theater)

Fandom: Improvised Fan Fiction in Your Favorite Worlds (The Hideout Theatre)

Get Up (GNAP! Productions/Salvage Vanguard Theater)

The Known Wizards (MerlinWorks/ZACH Theater)

The Megaphone Show (The New Movement Theater)

The Suitcase (The Institution Theater)

B. Iden Payne Awards Committee Elects Andrea Smith as Executive Director

BIPAC is pleased to present our new Executive Director Andrea S. Smith as we offer well wishes and best of luck to our former E.D.!


“After nearly 7 years volunteering with the B. Iden Payne Awards Council, it is now that I make my exit in order to pursue other personal and professional opportunities. It has truly been a pleasure serving on the Council and I am extremely pleased with the direction the organization has undertaken the past few years and am excited to see the new paths forged in the upcoming years. I welcome and wish luck to all of the new members and offer best wishes and success to the council.

I also want to give my heartfelt gratitude to all of the artists working in this wonderful city of ours. Those efforts are for what we come together as a community to celebrate who, what, and why we are. Thank you so much for everything.”

—Julianna E. Wright



“I am very happy and excited for Julie as she continues to pursue her personal and professional goals. I am equally excited to have the opportunity to serve as Executive Director of the Council. After almost a decade of service, I’m pleased to have the opportunity to guide the next incarnation of the council while continuing to strengthen and explore various relationships and collaborations with and for the community. It’s going to be a great year!”

—Andrea S. Smith

2011-2012 B. Iden Payne Awards for Theatre, Austin

Announced at the October 29 ceremony at the Zach's Topfer Theatre and published on the B. Iden Payne website November 2:

2011-2012 B. Iden Payne Awards Recipients

November 2, 2012

The B. Iden Payne Awards Council is pleased to present the 2011-2012 B. Iden Payne Award Recipients. These artists have been recognized for their outstanding theatrical contributions to the Austin community and we congratulate them.

DRAMA

Outstanding Production of a Drama

Rose Rage, The Hidden Room

Outstanding Direction of a Drama

Beth Burns, Rose Rage

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama

Jude Hickey (K.J.), The Aliens

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama (IT'S A TIE!)

Kim Adams (Narrator), The Pavilion

Babs George (Kate Keller), All My Sons

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama

Joey Hood (Jasper), The Aliens

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Drama

Breanna Stogner (Tchiripacha, Edie, Eliza), The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm

Outstanding Production of Youth Theatre

The Commedia of Errors (VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre)

Click to go to AustinLiveTheatre.com to view complete list of 2011-2012 B. Iden Payne awards . . . .